Random Reflections on The 24 Minute Documentary

I’m watching the new Techcrunch 24 Minute Documentary on Web 2.0 at the moment and find myself reacting in a whole heap of ways (most of them conflicting). Let me spit them all out and see what we get (warning – no guarantees that this is going to make any sense):

There’s that green color again….

American males everywhere – is Web 2.0 just a boys and their toys thing???

Nice to see and hear some faces and voices to names….

Bubble Schmubble – I think there could be a bubble of people talking about whether there’s a bubble….

Video definitely adds something to blogs….

What is that music? For a while there it sounded slightly porno (from what I’ve heard about porn music) and then I thought it got slightly trance/meditative like. By the end I was just annoyed by it….

Web 2.0 certainly has a lot of jargony words and cliches….

Lots of sensible stuff was said….Lots of what was said contradicted what else was said – is Web 2.0 definable???

I’m not really sure I care what Web 2.0 is – I just care about good useable products that make my life better….

If when you finish watching it you drag the slider backwards and forwards the guys all merge into one and you notice just how much of them speak with their hands and how most of them are wearing plain colored button up shirts (quite a clean cut looking bunch)…..

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Normally, I wouldn’t be so critical of anyone’s work, but that was a waist of 24 minutes, which unfortunately I’m never going to get back.

The presentation was horrible – just when you think you are beginning to figure out someone’s train of thought, they transition to another person.

In the end I am completely lost on what the overall consensus is. So, what’s my personal opinion? Web 2.0 is about providing the best experience possible for the end users.

How “Web 2.0″ companies achieve the best experience possible will always vary. Some do it by providing technological feats that used to be impossible, others are doing it by redesigning their sites so that the look feels Web 2.0ish, and still others are doing it by opening things up and making it easy for end-users to communicate or express themselves, either directly with the site or other users. In the end, I feel that it boils down to providing the best experience possible for the end users.

I don’t know. There are about 50,000 people that care about web 2.0 but as these few people say things are about the same. Social content, tough to get workers, it is not a bubble but is barely definable.

And back a few days ago no one called the internet web 1.0 but these clean cut guys sure like to use that term now.